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After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it (boingboing.net)

submitted 6 months ago by jdhdbdk to c/[email protected]

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[–] mriguy 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It wasn’t in the boing boing article, but this is according to the Washington Post:

Climax CEO Oliver Zahn accused the foundation of caving to pressure from dairy cheesemakers in revoking the award. And then he spilled the curds: Climax, it turns out, wasn’t just a finalist — it was set to win the award, a fact that all parties are asked to keep confidential until the official ceremony in Portland, Ore., but was revealed in an email the foundation sent to Climax in January. Based on that information, Zahn and several of his colleagues had planned to attend, booking hotel rooms and making travel plans, until, he says, learning from this reporter that his cheese was no longer in the running.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

this is according to the Washington Post

Well yes, but actually no.

it was set to win the award

Being set to win an award is not winning an award. It's a less heinous lie but it is still a lie.

[–] Ptsf 5 points 6 months ago

If you've been emailed "please prepare for attendance to the award ceremony" and your attendance is suddenly no longer required because you've been disqualified, that sort of speaks volumes to the mechanics at play. It doesn't outright prove you were going to win, but you don't owe the competition runners any benefit of the doubt when they had every opportunity to communicate this and make a decision before it got to the point it did.